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The Three Musketeers

48 A FAMILY AFFAIR
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You speak like the Apocalypse, and you are as true as the Gospel.

There is nothing now to do but to put the address to this letter." "That is easily done," said Aramis.
He folded the letter fancifully, and took up his pen and wrote: "To Mlle.

Michon, seamstress, Tours." The three friends looked at one another and laughed; they were caught.
"Now," said Aramis, "you will please to understand, gentlemen, that Bazin alone can carry this letter to Tours.

My cousin knows nobody but Bazin, and places confidence in nobody but him; any other person would fail.

Besides, Bazin is ambitious and learned; Bazin has read history, gentlemen, he knows that Sixtus the Fifth became Pope after having kept pigs.


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